40th Annual General Meeting of IIPA (J&K)

The 40th Annual General Meeting of the Jammu and Kashmir Regional Branch of IIPA was held in Jammu today which was attended by IIPA members. The presentation of annual report by the Hony Secretary Er J.B.S.Johar and annual statement of accounts by Joint Secretary Dr. Anil Gupta were followed by discussion on the reports and future activities. The members complimented the Executive Committee for record number of quality programs during 2018 and also proposed various themes around which the programmes should be organized. Dr Ashok Bhan, Patron, IIPA J&K Regional Branch addressed the AGM setting out future targets for the Branch in organizing activities aimed at capacity building for good governance through training programmes, taking up research projects in the area of management and security studies in collaboration with various universities. Dr. Ashok Bhan proposed that the annual activities of the branch should revolve around a specific theme and he suggested themes including social harmony and peace, electoral reforms and development hand in hand with environmental protection. Dr. S S Bleoria, IAS (Retd) and former Patron, IIPA (J&K) while speaking during the occasion congratulated the team for successfully organizing the programmes and emphasized the need for identifying initiatives to make the branch more vibrant. .